My presentation – Wordkeepers. Check out the wordkeeper powerpoint.
Craig – Rubrics
Have the students sort the example papers into categories of high, medium, low, and answer the question of what makes it that way. Students make a list then, of what characteristics make a paper high, medium, low. How I might use it, is to make or find from last year’s students, examples of work that follow the BAME for meeting standards. Then from there they can make a list of qualities needed for making standards – voila! a rubric!
Chandra – Mini Lessons
- Have kids up close
- Room arrangement important
- Have your expectations clearly posted
- Kids help create charts – put their names or intials next to their comments, track who is doing the sharing and help them recognize thier own efforts
- Connect learning to what kids already know, processes they have previously experienced
Mat – Collaborative Learning Groups
- Positioning students, do your best to avoid students with back to you
- Reading Review Partners – assigned (lab partners are different)
Jimmy- Look Listen and Link
- stress, anxiety, suicide, depression
- Senteo – clickers for electronic response system
- “Do Now” activity that connects to prior learning
- Direct instruction, and cooperative activities
- Stress relievers, get up, get out of your seat – yoga type things
- Students will lead the stress reliever activities
- Read and pause (for students to fill in reading the next few words) then continue reading
- Some popcorn reading
- Use graphic organizers for topic sentences, and vocabulary words
- Pyramid of success, students create a fill in the blank – 3 points, multiple choice – 3 points, true false 2 points, kids get a day to make the questions, then make a game out of it while students travel around the room to answer other students questions. Work in teams of two.
- look for the problem, listen for the problem, and provide a link for someone (for how someone can solve it.)
- exit strategy, one minute game in small groups. What was a challenge for me, one or two facts I learned today, what I still have questions about.
Zandria – Kaygan Classrooms
- P Positive Interdependence
- I Individual Accountability
- E Equal Participation
- S Simultaneous Interaction
Team building – fun, no content, easy
Class building – students are up, moving, sharing
Uses timer and selector tools to aid cooperative groups (online stopwatch.com or you can buy them at Kaganonoline.com)
Rally coach – math sheet in partners (shoulder/face) one partner does the problem while the other partner coaches, then they switch, they always give a complement – “good job”.
Quiz Quiz Trade – students have note cards with a question on one side and an answer on the other, and they move about the room reading a question to another child , then a second child. Hint, hint tell, good, job, then they switch when done, the partners trade cards and go and find another partner. If no one is quizzing you, you walk with your hand in the air until someone see’s you and comes to you. Takes 20 minutes. can use white boards to draw answers.
Fan-n-pick – have an array of cards (like a card game) with questions, a partner picks one and uses their white board to answer the question, then switch.
Numbered heads together- computer program, like jeapardy, you enter questions into the computer and then it operates a bit like jeapardy. Kids write their answers on the white boards they have with thier numbered partners.
Silly sports and goofy games – movement
